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'''Henry:''' Yeah, like, uh, plague of locusts, or firey hail, or... total darkness.\\

'''Liara:''' The next wave looks like a big one.\_

* ''Series/TheSuperMarioBrosSuperShow'' episode "Koopenstein": After Mario's plan to get into Koopa's tower fails, Toad suggest that he climb the wall of the tower and let everybody in. Later, Toad is seen struggling as he climbs up.

** Bugs gets himself into predicaments like this just as often. In ''Rabbit Punch'', he heckles boxing champion Battling [=McGook=], who throws him into the boxing stadium. After landing in the corner of the ring, Bugs says to himself, "Me and my big mouth."

--->'''Hawkeye:''' We took one of them down easy enough.\\

'''Blake:''' You had to say it, right?

--->''[Kira is picking all of the green [=MnM=]'s out of a jar per her new boss's orders]''

''[[[TheDragon Elsa]] and six [[{{Mooks}} Tyrannodrones]] warp in from an [[PortalNetwork Invisiportal]]; Kira looks up and gasps]''\\

* In the Literature/RealRPG novel Literature/MindGames, James does this when the Sheriff speculates that maybe they won’t get any immigrants after several minutes pass without the doors on the Trade Center opening. [[spoiler:And of course they open and immigrants walk out seconds later.]]

* ''FanFic/RosarioVampireBrightestDarkness':

->'''Harold''': I guess you're right. But at least things can't get any worse.
->'''George''': Aaaaugh! You did it ''again''! Now when you turn the page, something even ''worse'' is going to happen! You've gotta learn to keep your mouth shut at the end of these books!
-->-- '''''Literature/CaptainUnderpants'''''[[labelnote:explanation]]Said on realising they would go to prison for the rest of their lives for [[ItMakesSenseInContext a crime their parallel universe doppelgangers committed.]] Immediately followed by the revived Professor [[AlliterativeName Pippy P.]] [[UnfortunateNames Poopypants]] bursting in with a giant robotic pair of trousers that shoots a freezing ray over George and Harold.[[/labelnote]]

[[folder: ComicBooks]]

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4238196/11/Harry-Potter-and-the-Marauders-of-the-Mind Harry Potter and the Marauders of the Mind]]'' Barty Crouch Jr. escapes Azkaban - ''again'' - and Draco and Narcissa Malfoy are promptly taken into Ministry custody as suspects. Narcissa tells Draco to make the best of things.

[Guards let in Harry and an invisibility-cloaked Hermione]\\

-->'''Harry:''' I CAN'T HEAR YOU! DID THE SPELL SILENCE EVERYONE OR SOMETHING?\\

[An angry Argus Filch enters the room]\\

-->'''Ginny:''' That's it. Mom is going to be dragged out of Flourish & Blotts by the aurors. I cannot imagine how this day could get more embarrassing.\\

-->'''Kaku''': A-Ah, Fleet Admiral? Before you proceed to rip my superior a new one… executive permission to speak freely?
-->'''Sengoku''': '''''Make it fast.'''''
-->'''Kaku''': Thank you, sir. ''(gives Spandam a flat look)'' You ''had'' to say it, you absolute ''[[PrecisionFStrike fucking]]'' idiot.

-->'''Harry:''' ''~Well, Reinforce, what do you think? Both of them are pure bloods, it's likely that they both have received prior training, even if just by being around magic all their lives. I'd like to see how things turn out.~''\\
'''Reinforce:''' ''~You mean that your curiosity is getting the better of you, don't you? You do have something of an adventurous spirit, as buried as it is, so I already know you plan to go yourself. It will be interesting I suppose, so sure, why not? What could it hurt?~''\\
'''Harry:''' ''~You're tempting fate, Rein, that's never a good thing.~''

-->'''Kurumu''': [[SarcasmMode Great, this day just keeps getting better and better.]]\\
'''Gin''': Any chance it could get worse?\\
(''sounds of CrowdPanic come from outside as Fairy Tale approaches the school'')\\
'''Dark''': You just ''had'' to open your mouth.

-->'''Akua''': You just ''had'' to say something, Razico.

[[folder:Film - Animated]]

--> (After a very narrow escape in a tiny rowboat, with a horse that just ate all their provisions)
-->'''Miguel''': Tulio, look on the positive side, at least things can't get--
--> (Thunder sounds and it starts raining heavily)
-->'''Tulio''': Excuse me, were you, were you going to say WORSE?
-->'''Miguel''': ... No.
-->'''Tulio''': No?
-->'''Miguel''': Nope.
-->'''Tulio''': You sure?
-->'''Miguel''': Absolutely, I revise that whole thing...
* From the 8th ''WesternAnimation/{{The Land Before Time}}'' movie when the gang is lost in thick snow
-->'''Littlefoot''': '[[TemptingFate How could this get any worse?]]\\
(cut to the gang struggling through a blizzard)\\
'''Cera''': You just ''HAD'' to ask, didn't you?!

[[folder:Film - Live-Action]]
* ''Film/ThreeHundred''
--> "What are you laughing at?"\\
"You...you just had to say it didn't you?"\\
"Say what?"\\
"We fight in the shade!"

--> '''Frederick:''' What a filthy job!\\

'''Ultron:''' ''(summons a small army of Ultron Sentries)''\\

-->'''Shaun''': Okay, people, can anyone come up with a way to make this day any worse?
-->Cue outbreak sirens going off and Mahir calling to tell his colleagues they have no way out.

-->'''[[TheDragon Hamilton]]''': Their strength flows through my veins. My blood is filled with their ancient power.
-->'''Angel''': Can you pick out the one word there you probably shouldn't have said? ''(Angel vamps out and drinks Hamilton's blood)''

* In the ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' episode "Spiral", Dawn says "At least things can't get any crazier. Right?" followed immediately by an arrow puncturing the wall of the mobile home they're riding in, the beginning of a siege. Buffy replies, "You realize this is your fault, right?"

-->'''Xander''': As long as nothing really bad happens between now and then, you'll be fine.
-->'''Buffy''': Are you crazy? What did you say that for? Now something bad is gonna happen!
-->'''Xander''': Whadaya mean? Nothing's gonna happen.
-->'''Willow''': Not until some dummy says, "as long as nothing bad happens."
-->'''Buffy''': It's the ultimate jinx!
-->'''Willow''': What were you thinking? Or were you even thinking at all?
* Being a GenreSavvy show with many references to pop-culture, this inevitably turns up on ''Chuck''. Many times, Sarah or another character will make a comment on how a situation can't get any worse, only for Chuck or Morgan to call them out on it.
--> '''Sarah:''' So there's a stolen Intersect out there somewhere.
--> '''Casey:''' Guess we're not retired after all.
--> '''Sarah:''' Well, it doesn't change the plan. It just means we have one last mission.
--> '''Morgan:''' What?!
--> '''Chuck:''' Nooooooo!
--> '''Casey:''' My God, Walker.
--> '''Sarah:''' What?
--> '''Chuck:''' Things never turn out well when you say "one last mission!"
--> '''Sarah:''' Is this because of some stupid movie?
--> '''Chuck & Morgan:''' YES.
--> '''Casey:''' You never say "one last mission."
--> '''Chuck:''' Never!

-->'''Carter''': Bottom line, if Reverend Harper is responsible, we're in for a lot more.
-->'''Henry''': Yeah, like, uh, plague of locusts, or firey hail, or... total darkness.
-->''All the lights go out''
-->'''Carter''': You ''had'' to say it.

-->'''Max:''' Don't tell me [something that is obvious that is happening]
-->'''99:''' Max! [saying that something]
-->'''Max:''' ''I told you not to tell me''
-->'''99 (usually as a response, doesn't happen always):''' Sorry Max, I keep forgetting that.

* ''Series/{{Lost}}'': In "This Place Is Death," the left-behinders need to get to the Orchid to stop flashing through time. Upon arriving at the station, Juliet remarks, "Thank God! What are the odds that we would end up in the same time as this thing?" They immediately flash to a much earlier time. Sawyer replies, "You just had to say something!"\\
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A variation occurs an episode or two later when our heroes are paddling in a canoe while being pursued by people shooting at them. The situation looks grim, but then the sky starts to flash. Sawyer turns to the sky and shouts "Thank you God!", only to find that they've flashed in the middle of a tropical storm, still in their canoe. Cue Sawyer shouting at God "I TAKE THAT BACK!"

-->'''Rigsby''': Well, maybe we'll get lucky. Catch a dunk. We're due an easy one.\\
'''Lisbon''': Ugh, you shouldn't have said that.\\
'''Rigsby''': Said what?\\
'''Lisbon''': "We're due an easy one." Now we're jinxed.
** Gets a call back later in the scene; upon hearing that Jane is causing trouble, Lisbon yells at Rigsby "See what you did!"

-->'''Alisha:''' We would've been arrested by now if they'd found the bodies...
-->'''Simon:''' (quietly) Maybe they're waiting until we're all together.
-->'''Nathan:''' ''Now WHY would you say something like that?!''

-->'''Grant:''' The prep for the boat myth is going great so far. [[TemptingFate I just hope that the weather holds out.]]
-->''[[[GilliganCut cut to the rain falling]]]''
-->'''[[TheNarrator Rob Lee]]:''' You just had to mention the weather, didn't you?

-->'''Tori''': Birthday or not, I think we better get back.
-->'''Dustin''': Yeah, let's get outta here before some [[{{Mooks}} Kelzaks]] show up.
-->'''Blake''': Aw, you had to say it, didn't ya?
-->''(Blake points to another part of the beach where Kelzaks are shuffling by)''

-->''(Kira is picking all of the green [=MnM=]'s out of a jar per her new boss's orders)''
-->'''Kira''': This job couldn't get any worse.
-->''([[TheDragon Elsa]] and six [[{{Mooks}} Tyrannodrones]] warp in from an [[PortalNetwork Invisiportal]]; Kira looks up and gasps)''
-->'''Kira''': Now, why did I have to say that?

-->'''Cam''': The Samurai Amulet!
-->'''Hunter''': I can't believe there's no one guarding it.
-->''([[KingMook Zurgane]], two EliteMooks, and several Kelzaks appear out of nowhere)''
-->'''Blake''': You had to say it, right?
-->''(Hunter shrugs regretfully)''

-->'''Tyzonn''': That was exhausting.
-->'''Rose''': Let's get moving before someone else comes looking for these relics.
-->''(Will detects someone coming with his super-senses)''
-->'''Will''': ''(coldly)'' Had to say somethin', didn't you?
** It also does this in "Once A Ranger Part II", when Red Ranger Mack is searching for a MacGuffin in a forest:
-->'''Mack''': This isn't so bad.
-->''(falls down a couple of stories through a loose patch of ground, landing on a rough patch of forest floor)''
-->'''Mack''': ''(wincing)'' Next time, Mack, just keep your mouth shut.

--> '''Vorenus''' We'll be fine. A very good offering was made to Triton before we set off.
--> '''Pullo''' If Triton can't keep me drier than this he can suck my cock!
--> (The ship's mast cracks and an even bigger wave slams into the characters)
--> '''Vorenus''' When will you learn to keep your big mouth SHUT?
* Series/{{Seinfeld}}'s Kramer has trouble keeping secrets. When George dates a lady that looks like Jerry, Kramer is the first one who pipes up about it. He, of course, gets scolded.
* ''Series/StargateSG1''. Context omitted so as not to spoil anyone.
--> '''Vala:''' What? We're already trapped in here. How much worse can it get?
--> *bad thing happens*
--> '''Daniel:''' How about that much?
--> '''Vala:''' I knew it was a mistake the moment I said it. The moment.

--> '''Jacob:''' We're not gonna make it!
--> [they make it]
--> '''Jack:''' Excuse me. I distinctly remember someone saying "We're not gonna make it!" I think we made it.
--> '''Jacob:''' I'm sorry, I overreacted. At the time, it looked very much like we weren't going to make it.
--> '''Jack:''' Yes, well, next time maybe you'll just wait and see.
--> '''Jacob:''' And blow the last chance I might ever have to be right?
--> [Beat]
--> '''Jack:''' What?
--> '''Sam:''' Welcome to ''my'' life.

-->'''Dean''': They can't pick a lock.
-->''[a hanger is pushed into the lock and begins twisting, working the lock open]''
-->'''Bobby''': ''[DeathGlare]'' Don't you '''''ever''''' get tired of being wrong?

--> '''Clarkson:''' ...after all, ''how hard can it be?''
--> '''Hammond:''' Don't say that!

* In ''Series/{{Warehouse 13}}'', the Season 2 episode "Buried" features the team, joined by Regent Benedict Valda (Creator/MarkSheppard), is staring down a DeathCourse filled with saw blades slashing across the floor. Pete says "[[TemptingFate At least it can't get any worse.]]" The floor predictably starts spewing flame. Valda turns to him and simply says, "Thanks for that."

-->'''Steve''': All you have to do is beat this last card. How bad can it be?
-->''(Enter apparition, a menacing knight with a helmet from which black fog is flowing out, and a skull-shaped mask hiding all of his face except for a pair of GlowingEyesOfDoom, [[RedEyesTakeWarning red, no less]].)''
-->'''Pete''': Eh, you had to ask.

-->'''Data''': With this power drain, we may have trouble communicating with the Enterprise, sir.\\
'''Riker''': Understood. Anything else?\\
'''Data''': Due to this force field, there is presently no way to beam us back, sir.\\
'''Geordi''': Oh, you had to ask...

[[folder:Machinima]]
* Inverted for the most part in the ''Machinima/Supermarioglitchy4sSuperMario64Bloopers'' episode "The Pirate Plumbers". Right when [[{{Pirate}} Cap'n Lardbutt]] is about to cut Mario and Luigi's butts off because they weren't telling him what they were doing in the sewers, Ben (who you may know as [=Nintendofan997=]'s roommate from "Two Great Friends!") appears out of nowhere and tells them they were here to find his pet squid named Mr. Squidge. Lardbutt mistakes it for a legendary squid monster and therefore welcomes the trio aboard.
-->'''Mario''': BEN! You little sh*t! You've doomed us all!\\
'''Ben''': ''(holds a chainsaw, aiming at Mario)'' I'M RAPE YOU!!
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Newspaper Comics]]
* In one of the ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' comic strip's rare strings of positive continuity, Garfield, Odie and Jon are on a camping trip which has been plagued with calamities.
-->'''Jon:''' This camping trip's been a total disaster. The wind blew our food everywhere, the ants ate my cherry pie...
-->'''Garfield:''' No, Jon! Don't say it!
-->'''Jon:''' [[RockBottom What else could go wrong?]]
-->(It promptly starts raining.)
-->'''Garfield:''' You said it!
** Or of course this alternative version:
-->'''Garfield:''' He's gonna say it!
-->'''Jon:''' *looks left*
-->'''Garfield:''' It wouldn't be Jon if he didn't say it!
-->'''Jon:''' *looks right*
-->'''Garfield:''' 3..2..1..
-->'''Jon:''' *looks left* What a long train.
-->'''Garfield:''' I knew it!
** Or [[http://garfield.com/comic/2014-02-16 this one]]:
-->Jon: Well, there's a blizzard outside...
-->Garfield: Don't say it.
-->Jon: We're snowed in...
-->Garfield: Don't say it.
-->Jon: The cable tv has gone out...
-->Garfield: Don't say it.
-->Jon: And we're out of hot chocolate.
-->Garfield: Don't say it.
-->Jon: What else can go wrong? [lights go out]
-->Garfield: You said it.
* The episode of ''ComicStrip/RupertBear'' when Rupert, his mother, and Pong Ping end up on the Mountain of Many Perils:
-->'''Ladybug:''' The Guardian [of the Mountain] will set many traps to catch you.
-->'''Rupert:''' What kind of traps?
-->''(An earthquake starts and rocks rain down on the group.)''
-->'''Pong Ping:''' Rupert, why must you ask such a question?!
[[/folder]]

-->'''Cortana''': No covenant defenses detected.
-->'''Marine A''': What? There's no Covenant here? Looks like maybe nobody's home.
-->*''Doors all around the bay unlock and waves of alien troops pour in, starting with [[DemonicSpiders cloaked Elites with Swords]]''*
-->'''Marine B''': Contact! LOTS OF CONTACT!
-->'''Marine C''': No Covenant. You ''had'' to open your mouth!
** Also at the beginning of ''VideoGame/{{Halo 2}}'': Sergeant Johnson spends the first cutscene lauding the new Orbital Defence Grid:
-->'''Johnson''': The Cairo is just one of 300 geo-sync platforms. That MAC gun can put a round clean through a Covenant Capital Ship. With co-ordinated fire from the Athens and the Malta, nothin's gettin' past this battle cluster in one piece.

* From [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaCDiGames Link: The Faces of Evil]]
-->'''Link''': Gee, It sure is BORING around here!
-->'''King''': Mah Boi! This peace is what all true warriors strive for!
-->'''Link''': I just wonder what Ganon's up to!
-->'''Gwonam''': Your majesty! Ganon and his minions have seized the island of Koridai!

-->'''Liara''': The drones are disorganized. They'd be much more effective if they worked together.
-->'''Shepard''': Please don't give the mercs ideas.
-->''After fighting off another wave of enemies''
-->'''Liara''': The next wave looks like a big one.
-->'''Shepard''': You just ''had'' to give them tactical advice!

-->'''Reyes:''' [[TemptingFate It should be smooth sailing from here.]] / '''Moira:''' [[TemptingFate We should almost be out of the woods.]]
-->''(Talon Heavy Assault appears)''
-->'''[=McCree=]:''' Ugh, you ''had'' to say it, didn't you?
-->'''Reyes:''' I withdraw my previous comment, we're ''definitely'' not out of the woods yet.
-->'''[=McCree=]:''' I'll note that for the record.

-->'''Cosmo''': ''[to Timmy]'' At least your parents aren't going away for the weekend and leaving your evil babysitter Vicky in charge!\\
'''Vicky''': [[IronicEchoCut Surprise, twerp! Your parents are going away for the weekend and left me in charge!]]\\
'''Wanda''': You gotta stop saying things like that!\\
'''Cosmo''': It is my gift; it is my curse!

-->'''Joanna''': Here goes. I just hope dataDyne haven’t done anything to prevent this…
-->'''Dr. Caroll''': [[AC:Virus detected]]
-->'''Joanna''': Me and my big mouth!

-->'''Arthur''': There's one two of you, you fools, we got a whole lot less to lose. Why don't the two of you ride away? That way neither of you get killed. Goddamm liberties...
-->'''Sean''': There's a few more of them turning up.
-->'''Arthur''': Me and my big mouth.

[[folder:Web Original]]
* Used in ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20060714 here]]:
-->'''Oggie:''' Vot - ''dose'' tings? Dey don't look like much.
-->'''Maxim:''' Oh, now hyu iz just ''asking'' for it.

-->'''Zola:''' Another annoyance courtesy of that meddling ''Barry''.
-->'''Lucrezia:''' urk! He's here?
-->'''Zola:''' No, ''no''. He made it to keep her from breaking through. But ''he's'' been missing for years. ''He's no threat--''
--> (two-panel significant pause)
-->'''Lucrezia:''' Do you ''want'' him to show up?!
* Every time Rob from ''Literature/DimensionHeroes'' utters a bad pun.

* In ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', some old guy sees Tsukiko getting her ass kicked by a Chlorine Elemental, and [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0458.html brags]] to Nale about how smart he was to stay in jail instead of taking Hinjo's deal to defend the city for a reduced sentence, and how much safer it is inside. In the very next panel, Tsukiko casts Shout, which breaks off a sizable chunk of the building, crushing him.

* ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic'': From his review of ''Series/TheSuperMarioBrosSuperShow'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfZelda'', when the opening theme starts with the first few bars of the Mario theme:
-->'''Critic:''' Well at least they have the original video game music. I mean, it's not like they'll try to modernize it with like some retarded rap or something.
-->''(rap starts)''
-->'''Critic:''' You know, I gotta learn to keep my fucking mouth shut.
* {{LetsPlay/Chuggaaconroy}}: It's particularly funny coming from a guy who's famous for being a LargeHam with NoIndoorVoice. [[http://youtu.be/HCSwYhd9yto?t=5m22s During his Pikmin 2 LP]], in his exploration of the [[ThatOneLevel Submerged Castle]], he tentatively mentions that the thing he's afraid of hasn't been set off yet. Not two seconds later, the thing he's mentioning, the Waterwraith, drops in, and...
-->'''Chugga''': I JUST ''HAD'' TO OPEN MY MOUTH! I JUST ''HAD'' TO SAY IT! AS SOON! AS I FINISH SAYING IT! YOU! SUCK! YOU! SUCK! GAME!
* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' Season 1 Episode 13: Human Peer Bonding:
-->'''Church:''' The way I see it: The Reds have absolutely no idea of how many Freelancers out here. So all I need from the two of you is to run around in the middle of the canyon wearing black armor while I sneak in the back of the base.
-->'''Tucker:''' Sounds good! But Church... where the hell are we gonna get two suits of black armor? ''(Church and Tucker look at the nearby teleporter.)'' [[ThisIsGonnaSuck Oh, fuckberries!]]

--> '''[[http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=csa01marisa0297 Page 0297:]]''' Yeah, not like it's one of those [[BossInMookClothing super-powered end-of-stage fairies with a ton of hitpoints]] and [[BulletHell danmaku]] that puts some [[LimitBreak spell cards]] to shame.
--> '''[[http://dizzy.pestermom.com/?p=csa01marisa0298 Page 0298:]]''' Oh why do [[SecondPersonNarration you]] even say anything.
* In ''{{Webcomic/Freefall}}'', Florence, caught in a hurricane and bleeding following an extended dunk in near-freezing water, [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff400/fv00348.htm explicitly thinks that she could ask what else could go wrong]], but knows better.

(''mind-controlled Thor appears'')\\
'''Hawkeye''': ''That's why.''

-->'''Rattrap''': Oh, man. What else have we got to look forward to?\\
''(A missile drops down nearby, the force of it throwing Cheetor up against the cliff and then onto the ground.)''\\
'''Cheetor''': ''(struggling up)'' Agh. You had to ask, didn't you?

-->'''Penfold:''' (''groan'') We could've had a day in Brighton!\\
'''DM:''' Penfold...I don't wish to know that!
* Franchise/{{DCAU}}:
** ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Unlimited'': (after The Big Three have reversed Grodd's master plan)

'''Wonder Woman:''' Well, I'm sort of missing Flash's ObligatoryJoke about Grodd having made a monkey out of us.\\

''(The Preserver transforms into [[OneWingedAngel his true, monstrous form]].)''\\

''(Scene transition to later, with Sarah sitting on a makeshift throne)''\\
'''Eddy:''' ''(raises glass)'' A toast, to my big mouth!

-->'''Chris''': Dad, I tried to go to school, but some guy won't let me.\\
'''Peter''': Oh yeah? [[YouAndWhatArmy Him and what army]]?\\
'''Chris''': The US Army.\\
Pan to a shot of soldiers, tanks, etc. crowded around the Petorian border.\\
'''Peter''': Oh, that's a good army...

-->'''Freakazoid''': Well, if it isn't...\\
'''Children''': NO!!\\
'''Freakazoid''': What? I was just gonna say...\\
'''Children''': NO!!\\
'''Dr. Hanker''': Don't say it!\\
'''Freakazoid''': Don't say what?\\
'''Steff''': Don't [[SayMyName say his name]]!\\
'''Freakazoid''': You mean "Don't say JustForFun/CandleJack"?\\
(GilliganCut to Freakazoid tied up with the others)\\
'''Steff''': Freakazoid, why did you say his name!?\\
'''Freakazoid''': 'Cause I-I wanted to do one of those funny things, like on -- you ever watch F Troop? -- where Agarn says "There's no way I'm wearin' a dress! Absolutely not! No dress!" And O'Rourke's like, "Yeah, you're wearing that dress! You're gonna wear that dress!" And they wipe *blblblb* and Agarn's wearin' a dress!\\
''(Quick cut to a clip from F Troop of Agarn in a dress, shouting "Yoo-hoo! Look out, fellas! Look who's here for you!")''\\
'''JustForFun/CandleJack''': Oh, I love that bit!

[[[VillainExitStageLeft Dementor flies away]]].\\

* ''WesternAnimation/LoonaticsUnleashed'' had this example in episode seven, "The World is My Circus", where the whole team has been turned into MixAndMatchCritters:
--> '''Lexi Bunny:''' Well, look on the bright side. It can't get any worse than this.\\
''(giant monster shows up out of nowhere and grabs everybody)''\\

* The ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoon "Robinson Crusoe Jr." has Porky Pig showing the audience a certificate saying that the ship was unsinkable. He then asks: "I wonder if that goes for hurricanes..." Immediately, a hurricane hits, sinks the ship and strands him on a deserted island. Afterwards, Porky angrily muses: "I had to open my b-b-b-b-big mouth!"

-->'''Keesha''': I've been thinking: I want more drama, more excitement!\\
''(the entire bus lurches and shakes, knocking everyone off-balance)''\\
'''Arnold''': I wish you hadn't said that.

-->'''Ralphie''': Sorry, Miss Frizzle, I didn't tell him to do it!"\\
'''Dorothy Ann''': Yes, you did, Ralphie! He heard you say you wanted him to "clean the bus".\\
''(The Ralphie-Bot hears the command and approaches the kids, grabbing a mop, with Arnold still holding onto it, pulling him yelling along with it)''\\
'''Dorothy Ann''': Me and my big mouth.
* Any given episode of ''WesternAnimation/MegasXLR''.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', "Look Before You Sleep": Twilight Sparkle has a by the book example, fitting of her character.
-->'''Twilight:''' I hope you're happy, the both of you. You've ruined my very first SlumberParty: the makeovers, the s'mores, Truth or Dare, the pillow fight! I mean, [[TemptingFate is there anything]] '''''[[TemptingFate else]]''''' [[TemptingFate that could possibly go wrong?!]]\\
(Lightning strikes a nearby tree, threatening to collapse it on her house)\\
'''Twilight:''' Sorry I asked."

* ''{{WesternAnimation/Reboot}}'' Season 3 Episode 15:

'''''(Multiple tears appear behind the Mouse and the Web Surfer.)'''''\\

-->"When am I ever gonna learn to keep my big mouth shut?"

--->'''Shaggy''': Hey, it's Titanic Twist! Good thing it's just on the monitor, eh, Scoob?\\
''(Shaggy chuckles and reaches out to touch the screen, but touches the monster's actual forehead)''\\
'''Shaggy''': ''(weakly)'' I had to say it. ''(runs away screaming)''

'''Curly:''' (''to us'') Sometimes I wish Meadowlark would learn to keep my big mouth shut!
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'': "It Came From Goo Lagoon" has Squidward relaxing on the beach, saying that nothing bad will happen. Cue him being bounced on by giant goo bubbles.
-->'''Squidward''': I'm going to learn to keep my big mouth shut.
* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'': In [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS2E02RelicsOfTheOldRepublic "Relics of the Old Republic"]]:

--> '''Pearl''': (...) Besides, that Spire was in much worse shape than we thought. It should've been even easier...\\
'''Steven''': [[EpicFail I FAILED AN EASY TEST?!]]\\
'''Amethyst''': [[SarcasmMode Nice one]].

-->''(after the Titans have seemingly defeated a giant flame golem)''\\
'''Beast Boy''': Is he out?\\
''(The golem emerges from the smoke, roaring)''\\
'''Raven''': You ''had'' to ask.

-->'''Slade''': I'm taking the girl.\\
'''Beast Boy''': YouAndWhatArmy\\
''[An endless expanse of Trigon's demonic monsters appear.]''\\
'''Beast Boy''': <[[ScreamsLikeALittleGirl high-pitched shriek]]>\\
'''Cyborg''': You just had to ask, didn't ya'?

-->'''Mikey''': These things are a slice of cake and a piece of pie! Mmm... so hungry.\\
'''Raph''': Yeah! At this rate, we've got no problemo!\\
[''cue the [[EliteMooks Elite Footbots]]'']\\
'''Donnie''': [[LampshadeHanging One of us]] ''[[LampshadeHanging had]]'' [[LampshadeHanging to say something, didn't they?]]

Stock response to many an egregious [[StockPhrases Stock Phrase]], especially WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong. Essentially LampshadeHanging by the GenreSavvy of TemptingFate. Simply put: One should never say that it can't get any worse, because sooner or later, it will. Usually preceded by frantic, ignored pleas of, "Don't say it, don't say it, don't say it... You Just HAD To Say It, didn't you?!"

* I/You had to open my/your big mouth! (This particular variant has an Anime VisualPun involving pulling the big-mouth's mouth wider.)

Contrast IAlwaysWantedToSayThat. See also NeverHeardThatOneBefore, TemptingFate. Often said by an exasperated ally in response to YouAndWhatArmy.

* Syrus tends to say this some varient of this when someone goes off TemptingFate in ''Fanfic/ArcVedProtagonists''... even if Fate decided to ignore the temptation.

** In Act III chapter 42, after all of the chaos that just occurred with Kuyou's attack, along with the revelation that Hokuto was EvilAllAlong and that he's gotten his hands on Felucia's SoulJar and used to to extort her into being his minion, the gang has just discovered that Fairy Tale is not only still active, but coming to Yokai Academy, and that Akua and Kahlua, who had previously visited the school to tell the gang that Fairy Tale was destroyed, were actually in league with the organization all along.

* In ''Film/JuanOfTheDead'', the protagonist and his team of for-pay zombie killers gets backed into a room by a swarm of undead, and the resident idiot asks "How could this be worse?!", which of course causes the lights to go out. Juan launches into a profane example of this trope.

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* In the ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' episode "Spiral", Dawn says "At least things can't get any crazier. Right?" followed immediately by an arrow puncturing the wall of the mobile home they're riding in, the beginning of a siege.. Buffy replies, "You realize this is your fault, right?"

* ''Series/GetSmart'' series uses this as RunningGag, every time main character gets into trouble.

A variation occurs an episode or two later, when our heroes are paddling in a canoe while being pursued by people shooting at them. The situation looks grim, but then the sky starts to flash. Sawyer turns to the sky and shouts "Thank you God!", only to find that they've flashed in the middle of a tropical storm, still in their canoe. Cue Sawyer shouting at God "I TAKE THAT BACK!"

* This happens on ''Series/{{Misfits}}'' whenever the group are trying to convince themselves that things are under control, then Simon instils paranoia in them all by detailing the worst case scenario with [[TheEeyore gloomy relish]]:

-->''(Will detects someone coming with his super senses)''

* ''Series/{{QI}}'' sometimes has cases of this where a panellist has just fallen into a particularly forseeable forfeit trap. A few times, the inverse has happened, where one panellist is begging for the other panellists ''not'' to give a particular answer...and [[ContractualGenreBlindness Alan]] gives it anyway.

* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' arrives to save a hostage from Professor Dementor, who says the evil scheme is costing him more in equipment than than the ransom would make "with the robot helicopters and henchmen and nano-{{jetpack}}s!"

* The ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoon "Robinson Crusoe Jr." has Porky Pig showing the audience a certificate saying that the ship was unsinkable. He then asks: "I wonder if that goes for hurricanes..." Immediately, a hurricane hits, sinks the ship, and strands him on a deserted island. Afterwards, Porky angrily muses: "I had to open my b-b-b-b-big mouth!"

** And then of course Foghorn Leghorn just has to comment on things, invariably making them worse; in "Crockett Doodle-Doo" he dismisses Egghead's attempt at producing a thunderstorm: "Some storm. Where's the thunder and lightning?" KA-BLAMM!!! "I had ta ask, '''''I just HAD TA ask!'''''"

** Another one in "The Magic School Bus Gets Ants In Its Pants", when the bus is [[ItMakesSenseInContext shrunken into an oversized]] [[strike:Oreo]] [[ItMakesSenseInContext Mallowblaster and being carried towards an anthill by ants:]]

* One episode of ''Series/{{TheMentalist}}'' has Lisbon invoking this trope in response to an offhand remark from Rigsby at a crime scene.

'''Lisbon: "We're due an easy one." Now we're jinxed.

** Mrs. Weasley starts arguing with Gilderoy Lockhart about the potential expense of thirty-five of his books[[note]]Seven books times five children currently attending Hogwarts.[[/note]] during his book signing.

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11420524/1/Choices-Part-I Choices - Part I]]'' during the Yule Ball Fleur turns Ron into a pig, Rita Skeeter is killed while in her insect Animagus form and Harry's date happens to be Moaning Myrtle.[[note]]One of the Hogwarts ghosts.[[/note]]

-->-- '''''Literature/CaptainUnderpants'''''[[labelnote:explanation]]Said on realising they would go to prison for the rest of their lives for [[ItMakesSenseInContext a crime their parallel universe doppelgangers committed.]] Immediately followed by the revived Professor [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal Pippy P.]] [[UnfortunateNames Poopypants]] bursting in with a giant robotic pair of trousers that shoots a freezing ray over George and Harold.[[/labelnote]]

-->'''Reyes:''' [[TemptingFate It should be smooth sailing from here.]] / '''Moira:''' [[TemptingFate We should almost be out of the woods.]]\\
-->''(Talon Heavy Assault appears)''\\
-->'''[=McCree=]:''' Ugh, you ''had'' to say it, didn't you?\\
-->'''Reyes:''' I withdraw my previous comment, we're ''definitely'' not out of the woods yet.\\

->'''Reyes:''' [[TemptingFate It should be smooth sailing from here.]] / '''Moira:''' [[TemptingFate We should almost be out of the woods.]]\\
''(Talon Heavy Assault appears)''\\
'''[=McCree=]:''' Ugh, you ''had'' to say it, didn't you?\\
'''Reyes:''' I withdraw my previous comment, we're ''definitely'' not out of the woods yet.\\
'''[=McCree=]:''' I'll note that for the record.

* VideoGame/Overwatch, during the Retribution event: